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Avast - http://www.avast.com/ AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/ CA eTrust - http://www3.ca.com/solutions/Product.aspx?ID=156 McAfee - http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/mcafee/a...us/category.htm NOD32 - http://www.nod32.com/home/home.htm Symantec - http://www.symantec.com/Products/enterpris...dcat&refId=1008 Trend Micro - http://www.trendmicro.com/en/products/suit...te/overview.htm There may be others, but these are the vendors currently offering A/V products for x64 versions of Windows.

Well, I know of no "enterprise" versions of A/V software being free (or cheap), but for home use I prefer Avast: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html Works on XP x64, but not sure about 2K3 x64.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypeFAQ.mspx Since ClearType involves subpixel font rendering, I'd say you'd pretty much have to port the entire graphics subsystem of Windows XP back to Windows 2000 to enable this.

That's the ticket - good work . If you learn some simple vbscript, it'll save you the trouble of having to do things with utilities external to the OS - there's actually not much you CAN'T do with a vbscript and some WSH knowledge, all without any 3rd party or resource kit utilities.

Doing it this way is sometimes referred to as a "split DNS". Google that for more information - a very good way to set up your domain if you plan on offering internal services to your traveling users via the 'net (especially via ISA server) in the future.

Some vbscript cooking is in order, I think: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Backup)}!\\" & _ strComputer & "\root\cimv2") ' 'Set variables ' dateNow = Now strCurrentDate = Year(dateNow) & "-" & Right(100 + Month(dateNow), 2) _ & "-" & Right(100 + Day(dateNow), 2) strCurrentTime = Right(100 + Hour(dateNow), 2) & "." _ & Right(100 + Minute(dateNow), 2) & "." & Right(100 + Second(dateNow), 2) ' 'Start Backup/Clear of event log ' Set colLogFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_NTEventLogFile where LogFileName='System'") For Each objLogfile in colLogFiles objLogFile.BackupEventLog("C:\TEMP\" & strCurrentDate & "_" & strCurrentTime & _ "_System.evt") objLogFile.ClearEventLog() Next This will backup your system log to a file in C:\TEMP with the nonclemature yyyy-mm-dd_HH.MM.SS_System.evt. So, if I did this today at 7:30PM on my system, I'd get "2006-02-01_19.30.16_System.evt" as the file, and the system log would then be cleaned.

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How did I miss that? If I misquoted, I apologize. Actually, XP can use the /PAE switch to enable page files larger than 4GB, but it won't allow physical memory over 4GB to be accessed. So it works, sort of .

There are third-party applications that add USB support to NT4, but you take your machine in your hands, so to speak, when you do that . http://store.bsquare.com/catalog/index.cfm...g&parent_id=127

Have you gotten a network trace to see what's happening while you wait? Also, as a test, have you disabled A/V software on the server and the client? If folder redirection works (and you don't get redir errors in the event logs), DNS isn't usually the culprit here.

If you have an old (1.3 or older) version of APC PowerChute on the box, this is actually a known issue. Their certificate expired, and it causes all sorts of problems - either stop the service (which isn't wise if you are actually using it, but it works), or upgrade the software. Not sure if you're in this boat or not, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

Turning visualizations off helps WMP utilization A LOT - if you haven't already, it's worth a shot.

You are welcome, and good luck .

If a machine boots in safe mode, but not normal, then it's a driver issue. Try removing all video, audio, network, etc. drivers from device manager and reboot, and see if the problem persists, or if you can boot (drivers will be reinstalled upon normal boot success).

If you can find another Dell OEM WinXP CD, you should be in good shape. Otherwise, your Windows XP key likely won't work, and you'll be in a bit of a pinch.

Open gpedit.msc (Start > Run > gpedit.msc > click OK) Then, go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services (this is system-wide; you can also configure in the same location under User Configuration, which is a per-user change if you'd rather the settings be different per user). Have fun .

Well, you could always follow this KB article: 555073: How to upgrade Small Business Server Domain Environment to regular Windows 2003 Domain http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;555073 Do that with your SBS domain, and you'll have fewer problems migrating from one domain to another.

Whoa - loaded question As to checking kernel resources, use the "Process" object in perfmon, and select the paged pool counter on the left and the process(es) on the right. For "norm" paged resources, it depends on the application. Also, it can depend on how much RAM is in your machine, registry entries, etc - most systems with 2GB of RAM have ~350MB of pagedpool available at boot, but there's no "norm" for most applications. However, you'll see bigger pagedpool usage on file servers and machines doing large file operations (or lots of small file operations), due to the file system's file cache being stored in paged pool.

Since you've got SBS, there really isn't an easy way to do it. I've always found it easiest to create accounts on the new domain, and use USMT/ADMT/ExMerge to move users to the new domain, mail included. It's not quick, but it is reliable.

Try forcing your NIC to different speed and duplex settings, to see if any of the 4 possible settings work better than the others.

1. Use the "net group" command. 2. There is no script interface in WSH to do this across the board, but I have seen a rather ingenious way to do this if you know the NIC's you'll be using in your environment: http://www.codecomments.com/archive299-2005-12-723253.html 3. Use the SC command to disable the Wireless Zero Config service: sc stop wzcsvc sc config wzcsvc start= disabled Then, in GP, change permissions on the service so that non-domain admin users cannot start the service (even local admins won't be able to reconfigure at this point, so be careful). And yes, there is a space between the = and the "disabled" text in the second sc.exe command above.

Depends on whether they're page faults in paging in operations, or paging out operations. Page Faults are not necessarily a bad thing, they happen any time a process tries to access a page in memory that has been moved or doesn't exist - the former is normal, the latter is bad .

Well, while I am sure there are hundreds of web tutorials, I found the O'Reilly book 'VBScript in a Nutshell’ to be a fantastic resource on WSH in vbscript - in fact, there's a whole chapter devoted to just WSH automation in vbscript . I strongly recommend it.

Private bytes is the actual amount of memory a process is using, and virtual bytes is the amount of virtual address space a process has allocated - so in fact, if a process is only using 2-3MB, that's all you'll get back (allocated address space that is unused is just that - unused but reserved). As to the svchost, try running tlist -svc (you will need the debugging tools installed) to see which svchost it is that's actually using the memory (svchost is just a service wrapper for other services).